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There's a reason "dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack" is one of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

I'm only interested if Joss Whedon comes back as part of the writing staff.

It's Time…Well, Spent.

Careful, Girls, He's Engaged!

She was supposed to be a superhero, but she sometimes seemed like little more than a middleman.

The American edition of Big Brother often operates very similarly.

The Buchmans had more of a really long apartment that went bathroom-bedroom-living room-kitchen (from "right" to "left"), but the larger size of each individual room makes me think the square footage wasn't much different in total.

Because everyday people have experience with one but not the other.

Can any of you experienced New York residents comment on the apartments from 2 Broke Girls and Mad About You, which go unmentioned in the linked article?

I stayed in a Manhattan apartment once with a layout that allowed for both a window and a hallway to be adjacent to the same wall—but only because the building angled along that wall, making the apartment somewhat trapezoidal, which is not what's happening with Monica's place.

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was also shot on 16mm as a budget-saving measure for a series with such an international scope.

As a Portuguese speaker, I agree with you about its weirdness—a standard Romance language in writing, but with spoken quirks which sound odd to non-Lusophones.

While this is definitely an objectionable development that will have far-reaching consequences for LiveJournal's Russian userbase, I honestly don't think there'll be much of a practical effect on the smaller number of Anglophone users—I'd be surprised if they even bothered paying much attention to GRRM (let alone your

I sometimes read those communities, but never outright joined them…

I've had a very similar trajectory during my time on LiveJournal, and I also intend to stick around rather than joining the exodus.

None of this is aimed at the English-language users, who now comprise a small percentage of the overall userbase…I imagine the average North American user can continue to (literally) demonise American politicians to their heart's content.

For all of Tumblr's other cultural similarities to LiveJournal, it's this lack of functionality which has kept me from ever enjoying it or wanting to migrate over.

On Mad About You, Paul was a documentary filmmaker and Jamie was in public relations.

The brush with infidelity that arose because of their difficulties conceiving in Season 4 is the biggest bump Paul and Jamie faced, but they still stayed together—they just started going to therapy afterwards.

The key is to hit that before the crazy outweighs the hot.